Ta dah! Our new book baby is now out. Just in time for Christmas, by some strange coincidence… Persepolis is basically Veggiestan II – i.e. a crazy English woman’s tour of Middle Eastern vegetable stuff – but the recipes are all new and you do not need to have read Veggiestan to understand the thrills…

Bad Santa…. Couldn’t resist reposting this splendid image of Mr. Shopkeeper. The concept of feasting was pretty much invented in the Middle East by the courts of Shah Abbas and those opulent Ottoman dudes. If you combine this fact with the idea of meze – the relaxed sharing of multiple dishes, and also our speciality…

So the Persian New Year 2016 is at 4:30:12 am (London time, natch) on Sunday 20th March. Yup – it’s not the best time of day for a party, but hey ho…. The year will be 1395, and we wish you a JOLLY HAPPY ONE! Nowrooz-et-an-Pyruz! (literally – ‘may your new year be victorious!’) As…

So this year we thought we’d host a lock-in for New Year’s Eve. At 8.30pm we will close the shop to the public so that we can throw a private, corner-shaped, ticket only party for our favourite customers. A multi-course, omnivores’* festive feast with a bit of bubbly at midnight. Yours for £45.00 a head…

OK – so we may not have managed a Christmas newsletter this year, but the least we can do is to tell you when we are open over the festive period. We will open until around 3pm on Christmas Eve, shut Christmas Day and Boxing Day, and reopen on the 27th when we feel like…